As promised, here are some South Park style portraits of how the youthful cast members from The Riveras appear in the minds of the authors. Kevin and Oscar were designed by me; all the others were designed by Rosey.

I admit, when I saw the name "Ella" I was wondering if it was going to be a reboot of Ella Stevens, one of Rosey's GBOT characters (A member of Oscar's band Mood Slime) but once I read the story obviously not. (Or at least, it's not obviously the same character)

Thanks for posting these; helps some people (like me) get a feel for the characters more easily.

I admit, when I saw the name "Ella" I was wondering if it was going to be a reboot of Ella Stevens, one of Rosey's GBOT characters (A member of Oscar's band Mood Slime) but once I read the story obviously not. (Or at least, it's not obviously the same character)

This Ella began with my need for Michael to have a girlfriend, and I envisioned a girl who happened to have some similarities to the original Ella, which is probably why the name sprang to mind. The surname Williams is very much in the same vein as Stevens, which is not deliberate; I just needed her to be last on the register (or roll call, if you prefer). They're not particularly intended to be the same character, but equally they could be, so that's very much open to interpretation.

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Thanks for posting these; helps some people (like me) get a feel for the characters more easily.

I have often wished that I could draw fantastic illustrations of various scenes in the stories I have written over the years, but this is something that I know to be far beyond my capabilities. Recently, however, I have been enjoying myself a great deal creating some more South Park style illustrations of Kevin and his contemporaries, attempting to use the props, clothes and facial expressions available on the South Park Character Creator to evoke some of the scenes from our new 'Collinsverse'.

Thanks to the fact that the available elements are not limitless, some aspects of the pictures may be more illustrative than literally recreating exactly what the text describes, but personally I find the finished results no less fun for that. I am hosting the pictures on my DeviantArt account, as you can probably tell from the links below. These are all the illustrations for the stories that have been released so far, but there will certainly be more in the future.

From the tail end of our first virtual season, Kevin develops an insatiable thirst for the blood of young men when he is possessed by Lamia ('Midnight at Glens Falls') and Oscar finds that his mind is no longer his own after he looks into the dead eyes of Vigo ('Back in the Picture') http://theeyeshield.deviantart.com/art/ ... -674030300

In preparation for our upcoming batch of stories, here are the original couple portraits I designed of Kevin and his friends. There are several variations in the same DeviantArt folder, but these are the protraits I created first and like best:

Additionally, these are the first two entries in my 'The Riveras Abed' series, in which I've used a simple (but I think fairly effective) process in Paint to show a bird's-eye view of two (or sometimes more than two!) characters in bed together. We start off with a couple of anomalously chaste scenes, as the girls enjoy some laughter-filled sleepovers in their best-friend pairs:

Over a glass of Sunny D, Kevin and Jandro share an intimate moment that leads to an unspoken agreement between them never to act on their significant mutual physical attraction, but stick with their very nice friendship instead https://theeyeshield.deviantart.com/art ... -742507139